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Weight Inspector Siezes Measures Man Accidentally Shot at Seaford
Vote Early Next Tuesday So All Can Vote
SOUTH SIDE MESSENGER
OFFICIAL PAPER, NASSAU COUNTY
Vol 3, Number 15
Every Friday
I Looking Out for Elec¬ tion Floaters
Nassau Republicans Believe Colon¬ izers Are Buiy in Some Diitricts in the TowA of Hempstead
FREEPORT AND BELLMORE, N. Y., FRIDAY. NOV. 4, 1910
It
$1.00 Yearly, Single Copy 5 CenU
Merrick
Services at the Church of thp Re¬ deemer Sunday, the twenty-fourth af¬ ter Trinity, at 7:30 and 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Telebration of the Holy Communion at the early service and Litany and Holy Communion at the aecond service. The Sunday School meetii in the Pariflh Huose at 10 a. m. That Nassau County this election The Woman'8 Auxiliary meets on Fri- ghall not be overrun by outside "float- day afternoons at 2:30. Any lady of era," imports for the purpose of vot- Mernck will be welcomed to its mem-ijnjj illeRally. is the clotermination of bcrship. The Junior Auxiliary meets the Republican (bounty Committee, and on Saturday afternoons at 2:30. Thelgt a meeting held in Mineola Monday offering on Sunday wall be for the jt wa.n decided to employ counsel and work of the Altar Society.
Mr. Charles N. Kent resigned his position last week with the Public Service Commission in New York to accept an offer from the Edison Port¬ land Cement Company. Mr. Kent is spending the week at the factory of the company in Easton. Penn., ac¬ quainting himself with some of the business but after thin week he will be associated with the New York oflice in outside work.
detectives in every voting district of the county for the purpose of arrest¬ ing violators of the election laws.
A preliminary canvass has been made, and it has been found that there are in every election district names ro- corded on the register whose residence and location in that district cannot be found.
This is especially true in the Nine¬ teenth Di.stBjct, which is Oceanside , the Eighteenth District, Cedarhurst ; the Fifteenth District, which includes
.,. . ,. ,, . , i- -1 ¦ Lynbrook, and liie S<'venteenth Dist-
Mias Aline ll;iines whose fami v is • . u- u • -i in i n • ti ,„ ,, KT A- !• .1 - . ^ net, which IS I'loral Park, all in Hemp-
at relham, N. \ ., for the winter spent ., ¦, ,.„„.„ 1 . 1 -.1 .. /•. rs stead town,
ast week Jiore with Mrs. CD. * • > ,• i. 11 rr i
A special meeting was held Tuesday
of the Repuhliciin C'oiinty Committee, and strenuous measures will be tuKcn to suppress the evil.
The Town ('oinmi ttoe at a meeting held Monday eveninj,' ailopteil the fol¬ lowing resolution;
Whereas, Iiifmination hiis been re- Oii' station agent, S. J. Rubin suf- ceived by the Republican Town Corn- fered a painful ace dent la"t week in mittee of the town of Hempstead to loadiiiga trunk. The trunk came down the effect that illegal registration has upon his little finn.T which was so bad- '"'^^" '''^^^ '" several election districts ly crushed that Dr. Newton, who was ,'" t^t' town of Hempstead, and, consulted, feared that it mitrht retpiire Whereas, It is believed that an or-
Harvey.
Special attention is called to the change of thi.' hour of the evening ser¬ vice at the t'htirch of the Redeemer for the winter months 7:.'i() instead of 8 o'clock.
amimtatioi), biU now he feels that he may he able to save it.
Mrs. W. .7. Kenny left .Morriek oii Monday, where she has been staying at the Hotel Merrick, to remain in New
ganizLod attempt will he made on Elec¬ tion Day to vote persons who are not legal residents of the town of Hemp¬ stead or entitled to vote therein; there¬ fore, he it Resolved, That this committee cir-
HENRY L STIMSON, REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK STATE.
York for a few (lays and then go on to j dilate notice throughout the town of Mount Clemens, Mich., for the L,eiiefit'*lJenipstead that any attempt at illegal
of the baths.
The regular monthly mectintr of the Men's Club will beheld in the Parish House on Monday at 8:;!0 |i. m. instead of onTuesday a.s usuiil, which i.s a lioli- day.
Master Herbert Mul agreeably surpriseil oi
" was most Hallowe'en
I voting will be prosecutoil to the full extent of the law.
Tho attention of ShcrifT Foster and District Attorney C'llcs has been called to tho matter, anil tlie State Board of Elections notilird of th«' prospect of il¬ legal voting bring att<'mj]ted in tin- town.
The fact that thi' registration in tin- town of Hempstead this year is more
Freeport
Baldwin
when beiiif^ entieeii into the parlor of j than 2,001) greater than that of last his home he found gathered there year was not known to the Kejiulilican about twenty of his young friends, leaders, and prohaldy would not have The usual ganiej apfiropriate for the i received attention but for a boast to seniiCP were indulged in, followed by the effect tliin the \i)t>' in the town of .singing, ilanci..^;, ami refreshments. , Hempstead will hv the largest ever Among those present were the Misses, cast, and that the Democrats will carry Muller, Tween, Stout, Henner, Hill, the town. It is a coincidence that the Carman, Angoll, Sybil Beniier, Weber, ! lirst intimation of an abnormal increase Bartow, Thaun, Julia Burns and Kitty j in registration came from outside the and Margaret Mulcahy; the Messrs. county, and from a man who is known Gus and Marry Muller, and the"" Mas^to De elosoly identified with Tammany ters'liurns, George Mulcahy, Herbert' Hall. It was this nnui who was over- Seaman. AngeH, William "t^tto and heard to nnike the statement that Charles Carman. ¦' Ih'nipsteail will give ii Democratic ma- - jiii'ity and will cast the largest vote
A large number of Merrickites were ever canvassed in the town, present on a paper of protest presented The tip was given State Committee- to tlie Water Board in session at Bell-, man Smith Co.x, who is also a member more on Wednesday against granting of the l{e[iublic:in Town Committee, to certain parties in Bellmore who de- and tFien an investigation of the regis- sire a Beliinore-Merrick franchise for tiation was begun, it was found that laying water mains in our streets, the in District No. 1 (d' Freeport there had right to the Merrick privileges. The been an imnease of 210 over the regi.s- Board took the papers presented and tration of 1909; in District No. !) reserved decision. A vote taken of (Oceanside), an increase of 148; in those present upon the matter showed District No. 17 (Floral Park and Gar- very few supporting the Bellmore den L'ity). an increase of 120, and in ¦proposition. District No. 8 (Cedarhurst and Law-
rence). there were 220 more registered
At a meeting of the Junior Auxili- than last year, ary on Saturday last to elect officers to An examination or dissection of the some e.xi8ting vacancies Miss Gertrude registration list in two of the districts Link was mad^ president. Miss Bessie named- Freeport, No, 4, and Ocean- Angell, vice president, and Miss Isabel side -showed that in the former there Weber, secretary. Miss Julia Burns were forty names on the list which is the treasurer. Miss Duncan visited were unfamiliar to the inspectors and the Auxiliary on Saturday and gave an to both the Republicans and the Demo- ' interesting and helpful talk upon the j cratic district captain ; nor could any Indians and the work done among them , other resident identify the owners of and upon prayer. the names. In Oceanside there are
sixty on the registration who are un- !
The hremen are arranging for anoth- known to the residents there. The in- er entertainment to be given in the crease of 220 in the Cwlarhurst-Law-
hall on Thanksgiving night. The same
rence district is considered most re-
committee js in charge as conducted ,„ark3ble, for the reason that those
villages are what are termed summer places, with u population of house renters in the summer, who returned to their city homes early in September. It may and it may nut be significant, but the four districts in which the hittehrandt, at the^^gg^^..^ increase is shown are on the n Wednesday and ii„e of the trolleys running into Nas¬ sau County from Brooklyn and Jamai¬ ca, and it would be an' easy matter for floaters to go from one district to an- other during the day in bunches of six An fcpworth League Group Rally lor ten and vote on the numes handed in will be held m Bellmore Methodist I to the inspt -tors on the registration. Episcopal CtMirch on Thursday even
Ing. November 17. A good program i« 5,^ „, „ ^j ^ ^^^ MM.«n««r till promised. The neighboriBg Leagues j„. 1, 1912, tS« b«wm«.» pi^er ia have all been invited to attbnd.
the last performance given in the hall Messrs. J. \V. Birch, Heed Midmerand Ernest Miller.
Mr. and Mrs. J, J. l.ittebrandt of Yonkers were visitors with tlieir son, Rev. William H. Hotel Merrick ( Thursday.
Epworth League Rally
1 the tovrn.
A running race will be hold Sun¬ day on .Miiiii street ai.d Seaman avenue at l(l:4r) a. m. lie tween Tom CalVery and Louis Ferrara, iidth of Fieoport.
JORDAN WKHHER Kev. D. A. Jordan, for six years ])astor of the .\I. E. Church, and Mrs. Lucy Webber, of isTl Mudisf))i .-\ve., Manhattan, were married at the Dre- • vort Houpe, Brooklyn, J'huisday oven- ! ing, by Rev. Chas. S. Wing, Supt. of the Brooklyn Church Society. They are residing at tlie Jordan re.-iitlenee on Lena avenue.
¦ D. P>ank Dikeman, school tax col- ; lector, gives iK>tice tliaihehas received : the warrant for the collection of school taxes and began collection last Monday. ' He will receive the tax at one per cent to Dec. 5, and after tliat date at 5 per cent. Up to Dec. ."1 his otiice will be at the First National Bank and from that date at 30 Conmiercial street. The rate this year is .'?.88 per hundred, against $1.92 last year; as the assess¬ ments were raised.j250 per cent this means the tax last year on same ass^ss- n'enis would have been $.7t)S, or an ad¬ vance of 1.112 this year.
Louis Rovegno, who has been with his brother in the fruit store on Rail¬ road avenue, has gone to Saugerties, where he formerly resided. "Ijouie" has made many friends by his genial disposition anti interest in athletics, since he has been in Freeport, and his departure will be regretted, especially by the baseball fans who looked to him for first reports of National and Ameri¬ can League games.
County Scaler of Weights ami Meas¬ ures Frank WocmI made a tour of Val¬ ley Stream and Lynbrook, during the latter part of last week and confiscated I 67 measures of various kinds while I making only eleven calls. '
Nearly all of them were of the Vh\- \ uid variety,_ and while many of them used for molasses, vinegar, etc., were found short, most of them wece seized as they were being used for the meas¬ uring of dry articles such as beans, peanuts and the like.
When asked why these people who have the short measures were not prosecuted, Mr, Wood stated to the re¬ porter that owing to the fact that he ! had not sealed all the weights and measures in the county that it was only fair that each and every one have ^ warning.
The Grand Jury iinll bring its reports in this week un cases investigated. Among those will be reports on the i complaint of Dr, Kvans about the local I Board of Health. The Grand Jury j
(Continued on p«ge 18.)
I'^rank Cotte and family moved into their new home on Rockwood Ave.
Adolph Sthreiber and family of Sea Grove Manor, have moved to Frcejiort, where they will reside on Ocean Ave.
A largo number of the High School |)upils and teachers, attired in sheets and pillow cases, tendered a surprise party to Miss Louise Byrne at her home on Grand avenue. After the hostess had somewhat recovered from her sur¬ prise, games and music helped to pass a very pleasant evening.
On Saturday evening the Milburn Literary Society celebi-ated their lath anniversary at the home of its presi¬ dent, Mrs. Charles H. Thomas, on Harrison Ave. An interesting feature of the meetjng was the reading of the year hy year history of the society since its organization in 1895.
The Pumpkin Heads of Baldwin will hold their annual dance in Salamander Hall, Oceanside, on Wednesday even¬ ing, Nov. 15. The committee consists [of Josh Hebenstreit, jr., Si Denton, jr., and Hiram Cotte. jr.
I The Epworth League of the M. E. [Church held a Hallowe'en social in the [church on Tuesday evening, which was ; i well attended by the members and I friends. The church was very taste- ; fully decorated with autumn leaves and j cornstalks. The evening was spent ! with several ghost stories, music, etc. One interesting feature, which attract- ' ed a large number of the young people was the "spook alley" which was hell I in the basement.
Last Saturday evening at the resi¬ dence of Mr. Charles H. Thomas the Milburn l/iterary Society celebrated its 15th anniversary. It was also a reun¬ ion mee/ting, some members coming quite a distance in order to attend. The house was attractively decoratetl. A program was renderetl and refresh¬ ments served. Mrs. Charles H. Thom¬ as is the present president of the Soci¬ ety and Miss Margaret B. Wheeler sec¬ retary and treasurer.
Miss Dorothea Southard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Southard gave a Hallowe'en party on Monday evening at her home on Lower Grand avenue. A number of young people were pres¬ ent and spent a jolly time.
These are days when the complexion needs careful guarding. Smith & Be¬ dell's ad in this issue tells how to , guard it most effectively. It
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Report
of Local Visiting' Committee
Bellmore
Single copies of the Messenger can, I be had at William Wolfe's drug store Showing Work of this Charitable and from Anderson Bloomer, news deal-
OrganizaHon Dnriirg the Pa.t \''' "* ^ •=*"*' ^^^ '^
! A large number attended the Hal-
Year; AUo Quarterly Meeting
lowe'en social at the home «f |Mr8. David Seaman Tuesday evening under auspices of the Epworth League of the East Meadow M. E. Curhch.
QUARTERLY REPORT
The Local Visiting Committee for Nassau County met at Mineola on Oc- i Nov. 2, 1910.
toher 28, Mr. F. B]. Willits presiding, -j Edit6r South Side Messsenger,
The Committee for Children reported Freeport, L. I. thirteen visits made to children board- : Dear Sir: Will you please publish ed in family houses in the Town of I in your paper on behalf of the family Hempstead. The reports were favor-j of David Bedell: Thanks to all friends able. One boy should receive treat-1 and neighbors for their.generous help ment from a physician. A boy who in our need and their sympathy in our had been considered unruly was very I losS.
much improved and doing well in \ Yours very truly,
8cho(d. Otie girl had been taken by 1 J. J. BEDELL.
relatives who will provide for her and
one has been ado[)ted by the family; The open season for rabbits and quail with whom she was boarded. A visit j started Tuesday, Nov. 1. Rabbits are had been made to the Howard Orphan ' reported plentiful this season but quail Asylum where three children from are very scarce in this section of the .North Hempstead and one from Oyster Island. Hay are supported. They are well ¦
clothed and fed and the school work re- ¦ Antonio Palermo has .<o|d his cottage markably good. A boy at Westbury on Crescent lawn to J. \V. Edwards of had been visited. St. Mark's avenue, who will take pos-
Nassau Hospital was visited on Oc- \ session as soon as the new building is tober 2(1. During the three months j completed, .¦^ince the last report two hundred and , "
sixty-four patients had been treated, i Kenneth Tillotsnn has secured a po- t'ighty-eight of them private patients. 1 s't'O" with the West Shore Railroad in Niiiety-eight were discharged cured New York City, with which company and twenty-three died. Sixty-eight ^''e will learn the electrical trade.
The fire company was called out Thursday of last week, a fire having started in the chimney of Stanford Smith's house on Oak. street. The blaze was quickly extinguished before
bor which
wives the sandwiches, old maids the lemonade, and widows the sweet pick-
most men young girl
operations were performed. The ca- , pacity of the hospital for emergency ' work was tested during the Vanderbilt
Cup races, eighteen cases being re¬ ceived in twelve hours. During the
three months covered bv the report,
eight births occurred. A niatcrnity ^ny damage was do lie.
ward seems to be one of the needs of
the hospital.
The Hempstead Almshouse was vis¬ ited on October 24. The builrling was
in a clean and orderly condition, the
beds neat and bedding clean. The
luimlier of inmates was twenty-six.
There were confined to their beds two
of them from paralysis. A colored
man is unable to move without crutch¬ es. One man was disabled from a sore
foot and partial paralysis and one has
tuberculosis. He has a sleeping room
by himself. Three meals a day are
given. Reading matter is supplied,
the Republican and the Observer by
the publishers and a daily paper by a
gentleman in Hempstead.
A (juantity of magazines taken by
life is a picnic in uru the judges.
A young son arrived for Mr. and Mrs. William Byrnes on Monday at their home on Wilson avenue.
Dr. Skow,. our new physician, is be¬ ing kept busy these days and is gain¬ ing a reputation for himself whenever he is called upon.
William F. Jeffrey is again confined to his home at Oakfield Nursery.
. ,, . , Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Kilpatrick of
the vK-^tiors were gratefully received c^^ona spent Sunday with relatives in
with the remark from the helpless t],,g Yj]jg„p ones, "They help to pass away the
George Palermo, who has been work¬ ing in Canada all summer, was in town on Sunday. George is now living in New York where he is employed.
Harry Aweler has secured a position printing
time." Religious services are held on Sundays.
The Almshouse for North Hemp¬ stead and (Jyster Bay was visited by' five or six members of the Committee. . The report given was not very satis- <
factory. Several of the old women ; at Doubleday, Page & Co. who are supposed t<j be beyond the i house at Garden City.
point of doing heavy work were aomg j
their own washing and one was scrub-: Next Tuesday is Election Day. Get
bing the floor. The house laundry' out and vote early. The polls in this
work is done by a very old man. Three ^district are at L, R. Smith's old school
meals a day are given but two of them ; house west of Schneider's store on
consists of bread and tea. The factlWantagh road. The polls open at 6
that the institution is as good a^ has, o'clock a. m. and remain open until 5
been for forty years seemed quite sat-'o'clock p. m.
isfactory to the Trustees, but not so to j — —
the visiting Committee. Religious! Ground was broken this week for a
services are held once a month in the ; new house on Bellmore avenue south of
summer. | the Benzer property. ^
The jail was visited on October 13 ! and found clean and orderly. The food Mr. Weiner is having an electric being prepared seemed good. The i''g^t plant installed in his home on numbers of prisoners was fifty-one, five , "'"^"•^ avenue, of them women. Three men were:
We are glad to learn that Prof. John H. Harrington is frequently conduct¬ ing a fire drill at the public school. This drill should be had two or three times a week, so as to have the child-
ren well trained in leaving the building
drunk ar^d disorderlyr^Reh'gious 11"'°'''y which is necessary in case of
held for murder. A number were awaiting the action of the Grand Jury, and eleven were tramps. There seemed to be a number of young men among them. One of the women was held tor arson, one for assault and three for be ing
ifire
services are held on Sundays.
One family receiving outside relief I mi. j- 1 .
had been visited. The woman is in ill ^^^ J'l"^'? ^^7',?*^ "^'f ^^ '"*'¦
health. The oldest son is working for I "'t'^'^J^ a VI ?^''^"' **^*'' *^ y^""'
fairly good wages and the younger | **"" died at h.s home on " ' •
ones sell papers. There are seven'
children in the family.
The Committee for County care
the dependent poor reported seve
the Merrick j road last Wednesday night, were held j on Sunday at the Bellmore Methodist ^ j^j. Church, of which Mr. Bedell was a /eral' "'^'"'^*''"' '^^ f'*^v. Charles Cox, pastor.
conferences held, and while many fav¬ ored the County 'system, others wero opposed to it. The Committee was continued.
The Committee on Tuberculosis re¬ ported progress and was continued.
After a recess for the annual meet¬ ing the Committee adjourned. ^ A. G. CORNWELL, Sec.
ANNUAL REPORT
Again we are assefibled in annual meeting and our attQiMiun is directed to a year that is gone. It was a year of large poasibilities and gr«at oppor-
(continued on page 18)
officiating. The services were largely attended, after whicn interment was at Greenfield Couietery, Hempstead. The deceased had resided in this sec¬ tion of the Island all his life and was well respected by all who knew him. He is survived by his wif i, two sons and four daughters. His wife was Miss Rusetta Jackson, at one time a resident of Brooklyn. The two sona are John J. and Selvenius, and the daughters are Mrs. Steuhen P. Clem- enta of this village, and Emma, Martha and Fannie.
The boys of the village are arrang-
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Weight Inspector Siezes Measures Man Accidentally Shot at Seaford
Vote Early Next Tuesday So All Can Vote
SOUTH SIDE MESSENGER
OFFICIAL PAPER, NASSAU COUNTY
Vol 3, Number 15
Every Friday
I Looking Out for Elec¬ tion Floaters
Nassau Republicans Believe Colon¬ izers Are Buiy in Some Diitricts in the TowA of Hempstead
FREEPORT AND BELLMORE, N. Y., FRIDAY. NOV. 4, 1910
It
$1.00 Yearly, Single Copy 5 CenU
Merrick
Services at the Church of thp Re¬ deemer Sunday, the twenty-fourth af¬ ter Trinity, at 7:30 and 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Telebration of the Holy Communion at the early service and Litany and Holy Communion at the aecond service. The Sunday School meetii in the Pariflh Huose at 10 a. m. That Nassau County this election The Woman'8 Auxiliary meets on Fri- ghall not be overrun by outside "float- day afternoons at 2:30. Any lady of era," imports for the purpose of vot- Mernck will be welcomed to its mem-ijnjj illeRally. is the clotermination of bcrship. The Junior Auxiliary meets the Republican (bounty Committee, and on Saturday afternoons at 2:30. Thelgt a meeting held in Mineola Monday offering on Sunday wall be for the jt wa.n decided to employ counsel and work of the Altar Society.
Mr. Charles N. Kent resigned his position last week with the Public Service Commission in New York to accept an offer from the Edison Port¬ land Cement Company. Mr. Kent is spending the week at the factory of the company in Easton. Penn., ac¬ quainting himself with some of the business but after thin week he will be associated with the New York oflice in outside work.
detectives in every voting district of the county for the purpose of arrest¬ ing violators of the election laws.
A preliminary canvass has been made, and it has been found that there are in every election district names ro- corded on the register whose residence and location in that district cannot be found.
This is especially true in the Nine¬ teenth Di.stBjct, which is Oceanside , the Eighteenth District, Cedarhurst ; the Fifteenth District, which includes
.,. . ,. ,, . , i- -1 ¦ Lynbrook, and liie S ,• i. 11 rr i
A special meeting was held Tuesday
of the Repuhliciin C'oiinty Committee, and strenuous measures will be tuKcn to suppress the evil.
The Town ('oinmi ttoe at a meeting held Monday eveninj,' ailopteil the fol¬ lowing resolution;
Whereas, Iiifmination hiis been re- Oii' station agent, S. J. Rubin suf- ceived by the Republican Town Corn- fered a painful ace dent la"t week in mittee of the town of Hempstead to loadiiiga trunk. The trunk came down the effect that illegal registration has upon his little finn.T which was so bad- '"'^^" '''^^^ '" several election districts ly crushed that Dr. Newton, who was ,'" t^t' town of Hempstead, and, consulted, feared that it mitrht retpiire Whereas, It is believed that an or-
Harvey.
Special attention is called to the change of thi.' hour of the evening ser¬ vice at the t'htirch of the Redeemer for the winter months 7:.'i() instead of 8 o'clock.
amimtatioi), biU now he feels that he may he able to save it.
Mrs. W. .7. Kenny left .Morriek oii Monday, where she has been staying at the Hotel Merrick, to remain in New
ganizLod attempt will he made on Elec¬ tion Day to vote persons who are not legal residents of the town of Hemp¬ stead or entitled to vote therein; there¬ fore, he it Resolved, That this committee cir-
HENRY L STIMSON, REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK STATE.
York for a few (lays and then go on to j dilate notice throughout the town of Mount Clemens, Mich., for the L,eiiefit'*lJenipstead that any attempt at illegal
of the baths.
The regular monthly mectintr of the Men's Club will beheld in the Parish House on Monday at 8:;!0 |i. m. instead of onTuesday a.s usuiil, which i.s a lioli- day.
Master Herbert Mul agreeably surpriseil oi
" was most Hallowe'en
I voting will be prosecutoil to the full extent of the law.
Tho attention of ShcrifT Foster and District Attorney C'llcs has been called to tho matter, anil tlie State Board of Elections notilird of th«' prospect of il¬ legal voting bring att' in the town of .singing, ilanci..^;, ami refreshments. , Hempstead will hv the largest ever Among those present were the Misses, cast, and that the Democrats will carry Muller, Tween, Stout, Henner, Hill, the town. It is a coincidence that the Carman, Angoll, Sybil Beniier, Weber, ! lirst intimation of an abnormal increase Bartow, Thaun, Julia Burns and Kitty j in registration came from outside the and Margaret Mulcahy; the Messrs. county, and from a man who is known Gus and Marry Muller, and the"" Mas^to De elosoly identified with Tammany ters'liurns, George Mulcahy, Herbert' Hall. It was this nnui who was over- Seaman. AngeH, William "t^tto and heard to nnike the statement that Charles Carman. ¦' Ih'nipsteail will give ii Democratic ma- - jiii'ity and will cast the largest vote
A large number of Merrickites were ever canvassed in the town, present on a paper of protest presented The tip was given State Committee- to tlie Water Board in session at Bell-, man Smith Co.x, who is also a member more on Wednesday against granting of the l{e[iublic:in Town Committee, to certain parties in Bellmore who de- and tFien an investigation of the regis- sire a Beliinore-Merrick franchise for tiation was begun, it was found that laying water mains in our streets, the in District No. 1 (d' Freeport there had right to the Merrick privileges. The been an imnease of 210 over the regi.s- Board took the papers presented and tration of 1909; in District No. !) reserved decision. A vote taken of (Oceanside), an increase of 148; in those present upon the matter showed District No. 17 (Floral Park and Gar- very few supporting the Bellmore den L'ity). an increase of 120, and in ¦proposition. District No. 8 (Cedarhurst and Law-
rence). there were 220 more registered
At a meeting of the Junior Auxili- than last year, ary on Saturday last to elect officers to An examination or dissection of the some e.xi8ting vacancies Miss Gertrude registration list in two of the districts Link was mad^ president. Miss Bessie named- Freeport, No, 4, and Ocean- Angell, vice president, and Miss Isabel side -showed that in the former there Weber, secretary. Miss Julia Burns were forty names on the list which is the treasurer. Miss Duncan visited were unfamiliar to the inspectors and the Auxiliary on Saturday and gave an to both the Republicans and the Demo- ' interesting and helpful talk upon the j cratic district captain ; nor could any Indians and the work done among them , other resident identify the owners of and upon prayer. the names. In Oceanside there are
sixty on the registration who are un- !
The hremen are arranging for anoth- known to the residents there. The in- er entertainment to be given in the crease of 220 in the Cwlarhurst-Law-
hall on Thanksgiving night. The same
rence district is considered most re-
committee js in charge as conducted ,„ark3ble, for the reason that those
villages are what are termed summer places, with u population of house renters in the summer, who returned to their city homes early in September. It may and it may nut be significant, but the four districts in which the hittehrandt, at the^^gg^^..^ increase is shown are on the n Wednesday and ii„e of the trolleys running into Nas¬ sau County from Brooklyn and Jamai¬ ca, and it would be an' easy matter for floaters to go from one district to an- other during the day in bunches of six An fcpworth League Group Rally lor ten and vote on the numes handed in will be held m Bellmore Methodist I to the inspt -tors on the registration. Episcopal CtMirch on Thursday even
Ing. November 17. A good program i« 5,^ „, „ ^j ^ ^^^ MM.«n««r till promised. The neighboriBg Leagues j„. 1, 1912, tS« b«wm«.» pi^er ia have all been invited to attbnd.
the last performance given in the hall Messrs. J. \V. Birch, Heed Midmerand Ernest Miller.
Mr. and Mrs. J, J. l.ittebrandt of Yonkers were visitors with tlieir son, Rev. William H. Hotel Merrick ( Thursday.
Epworth League Rally
1 the tovrn.
A running race will be hold Sun¬ day on .Miiiii street ai.d Seaman avenue at l(l:4r) a. m. lie tween Tom CalVery and Louis Ferrara, iidth of Fieoport.
JORDAN WKHHER Kev. D. A. Jordan, for six years ])astor of the .\I. E. Church, and Mrs. Lucy Webber, of isTl Mudisf))i .-\ve., Manhattan, were married at the Dre- • vort Houpe, Brooklyn, J'huisday oven- ! ing, by Rev. Chas. S. Wing, Supt. of the Brooklyn Church Society. They are residing at tlie Jordan re.-iitlenee on Lena avenue.
¦ D. P>ank Dikeman, school tax col- ; lector, gives iK>tice tliaihehas received : the warrant for the collection of school taxes and began collection last Monday. ' He will receive the tax at one per cent to Dec. 5, and after tliat date at 5 per cent. Up to Dec. ."1 his otiice will be at the First National Bank and from that date at 30 Conmiercial street. The rate this year is .'?.88 per hundred, against $1.92 last year; as the assess¬ ments were raised.j250 per cent this means the tax last year on same ass^ss- n'enis would have been $.7t)S, or an ad¬ vance of 1.112 this year.
Louis Rovegno, who has been with his brother in the fruit store on Rail¬ road avenue, has gone to Saugerties, where he formerly resided. "Ijouie" has made many friends by his genial disposition anti interest in athletics, since he has been in Freeport, and his departure will be regretted, especially by the baseball fans who looked to him for first reports of National and Ameri¬ can League games.
County Scaler of Weights ami Meas¬ ures Frank WocmI made a tour of Val¬ ley Stream and Lynbrook, during the latter part of last week and confiscated I 67 measures of various kinds while I making only eleven calls. '
Nearly all of them were of the Vh\- \ uid variety,_ and while many of them used for molasses, vinegar, etc., were found short, most of them wece seized as they were being used for the meas¬ uring of dry articles such as beans, peanuts and the like.
When asked why these people who have the short measures were not prosecuted, Mr, Wood stated to the re¬ porter that owing to the fact that he ! had not sealed all the weights and measures in the county that it was only fair that each and every one have ^ warning.
The Grand Jury iinll bring its reports in this week un cases investigated. Among those will be reports on the i complaint of Dr, Kvans about the local I Board of Health. The Grand Jury j
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I'^rank Cotte and family moved into their new home on Rockwood Ave.
Adolph Sthreiber and family of Sea Grove Manor, have moved to Frcejiort, where they will reside on Ocean Ave.
A largo number of the High School |)upils and teachers, attired in sheets and pillow cases, tendered a surprise party to Miss Louise Byrne at her home on Grand avenue. After the hostess had somewhat recovered from her sur¬ prise, games and music helped to pass a very pleasant evening.
On Saturday evening the Milburn Literary Society celebi-ated their lath anniversary at the home of its presi¬ dent, Mrs. Charles H. Thomas, on Harrison Ave. An interesting feature of the meetjng was the reading of the year hy year history of the society since its organization in 1895.
The Pumpkin Heads of Baldwin will hold their annual dance in Salamander Hall, Oceanside, on Wednesday even¬ ing, Nov. 15. The committee consists [of Josh Hebenstreit, jr., Si Denton, jr., and Hiram Cotte. jr.
I The Epworth League of the M. E. [Church held a Hallowe'en social in the [church on Tuesday evening, which was ; i well attended by the members and I friends. The church was very taste- ; fully decorated with autumn leaves and j cornstalks. The evening was spent ! with several ghost stories, music, etc. One interesting feature, which attract- ' ed a large number of the young people was the "spook alley" which was hell I in the basement.
Last Saturday evening at the resi¬ dence of Mr. Charles H. Thomas the Milburn l/iterary Society celebrated its 15th anniversary. It was also a reun¬ ion mee/ting, some members coming quite a distance in order to attend. The house was attractively decoratetl. A program was renderetl and refresh¬ ments served. Mrs. Charles H. Thom¬ as is the present president of the Soci¬ ety and Miss Margaret B. Wheeler sec¬ retary and treasurer.
Miss Dorothea Southard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Southard gave a Hallowe'en party on Monday evening at her home on Lower Grand avenue. A number of young people were pres¬ ent and spent a jolly time.
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Report
of Local Visiting' Committee
Bellmore
Single copies of the Messenger can, I be had at William Wolfe's drug store Showing Work of this Charitable and from Anderson Bloomer, news deal-
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! A large number attended the Hal-
Year; AUo Quarterly Meeting
lowe'en social at the home «f |Mr8. David Seaman Tuesday evening under auspices of the Epworth League of the East Meadow M. E. Curhch.
QUARTERLY REPORT
The Local Visiting Committee for Nassau County met at Mineola on Oc- i Nov. 2, 1910.
toher 28, Mr. F. B]. Willits presiding, -j Edit6r South Side Messsenger,
The Committee for Children reported Freeport, L. I. thirteen visits made to children board- : Dear Sir: Will you please publish ed in family houses in the Town of I in your paper on behalf of the family Hempstead. The reports were favor-j of David Bedell: Thanks to all friends able. One boy should receive treat-1 and neighbors for their.generous help ment from a physician. A boy who in our need and their sympathy in our had been considered unruly was very I losS.
much improved and doing well in \ Yours very truly,
8cho(d. Otie girl had been taken by 1 J. J. BEDELL.
relatives who will provide for her and
one has been ado[)ted by the family; The open season for rabbits and quail with whom she was boarded. A visit j started Tuesday, Nov. 1. Rabbits are had been made to the Howard Orphan ' reported plentiful this season but quail Asylum where three children from are very scarce in this section of the .North Hempstead and one from Oyster Island. Hay are supported. They are well ¦
clothed and fed and the school work re- ¦ Antonio Palermo has .